Finances

Confluence International is a voluntary organization.  All members of its Supervisory Board and all members of its Management are volunteers and serve without compensation. Board and Management members pay their expenses themselves from their own resources, and they are not reimbursed. Since the organisation makes no payments and receives no income or grants, no financial records or balance sheets are needed. However, as required by Dutch law, the organization does make timely quarterly reports to the VAT section of the Dutch Belastingdienst (Tax Authority)

Supervisory Board

  • Annelies Claessens

    Director of International Programmes,
    War Child Holland

  • Michiel den Hond

    Former Ambassador of the Netherlands to Israel and Italy

  • Susan Collin Marks

    Former Vice President,
    Search for Common Ground

Management


  • Founder // Managing Director

    In 1982, John founded Search for Common Ground, which he led for the next 32 years. With his wife, Susan Collin Marks, he built Search into the world’s largest peacebuilding organization. Search was nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. John also founded and headed Common Ground Productions. The vision that drove — and still drives — his work is to transform how countries and individuals deal with conflict — away from adversarial, win-lose propositions to non-adversarial, win-win problem-solving. He is a former U.S. diplomat, a current social entrepreneur, a best-selling author, an Ashoka Senior Fellow, and a Skoll Awardee. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the UN’s University of Peace, and he currently is a Visiting Scholar at Leiden University.

 

  • Project Coordinator

    Brandon’s background spans activism, academia, performance arts, and even acrobatics, including accolades from Fulbright Scholar to Grammy Nominee. Originally from Tennessee, he organized clean energy campaigns across the Southeast before pursuing music in Los Angeles, both on-stage and in-studio. Performing on tuba, bass, and trombone, international tours with the California Feetwarmers and the Blasting Company led to international cultural diplomacy tours and composing for Over the Garden Wall. He holds a Master’s in Conflict Resolution & Governance from the University of Amsterdam, where he now teaches and researches as a Junior Lecturer in Political Science. He and his partner live on a 124-year old houseboat in Amsterdam.

 
 

  • Lead Mediator

    Elodie has worked for 25 years as an expert, manager and director in professional and business services at Houthoff, the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris, at multinationals Ahold and ING, as well as in a university environment for the Amsterdam ADR Institute (negotiation and mediation for lawyers). As head of the Directors Club, she has also coached hundreds of people in how to work from their source code and achieve what they really want for themselves and their organization.

    Elodie also founded the first Women Leaders Mastermind program and is well versed in international mediation.

 

KvK-nummer: 86046853
RSIN: 863843827